This week I met with Wolfgang Butzkamm, Professor emeritus at the University of Aachen and supporter of “functional monolingualism” in foreign language teaching, i.e. the strictly defined use of learners’ native language to make foreign language teaching more efficient. I could talk to him about BGE and he gave me some valuable ideas that led to an additional appendix to my book “Basic Global English for Age Group 7 to 10: A Teacher Handbook with Materials for First-Year Learners” (available at http://www.basicglobalenglish.com).
Joachim Grzega
ASEcoLi 
